BREAKING: For the 32nd year in a row, the United Nations votes overwhelmingly to end the US embargo on Cuba 🇨🇺.
The vote today was 187-2.
Countries voting against:
United States 🇺🇸
Israel 🇮🇱
Abstentions:
Moldova 🇲🇩
I try to ignore the racism on this website, but the fact that a member of the NY Post’s editorial board said this publicly shows what’s considered acceptable when it comes to Muslims in public life.
They want us to be silent, but I’m sorry Michael, we’re not going anywhere.
I was politicized, alongside millions of people my age, by marching against the unconscionable things Dick Cheney helped do to the world. Why would we vote for a candidate he supports?
What Ta-Nehisi Coates is doing, using his standing in the liberal mainstream to enter rarefied mainstream spaces to speak out on behalf of Palestinians, even though those spaces will be invariably hostile and even perhaps subsequently foreclosed to him, is incredible
“Ta-Nehisi, I know you’re a leading intellectual of our era and I’m white mediocrity personified, but let’s pretend for a moment that you’re just some guy. Would you agree that you belong on a no-fly list?”
In an alarming repression effort, @nyuniversity quietly updated their student conduct policy prohibiting against criticism of Zionism — a political ideology — as akin to discrimination of protected categories.
@NYUSJP & @NYUFJPalestine statement notes its anti-factual basis:
There's something so jarring about hearing the resolve of the DNC against gun violence on behalf of American children, while the Party's leadership continues to send guns & bombs to the Israeli military to slaughter & orphan 10,000s of innocent Palestinian children. #DNC2024
Harris speaks of Palestinians like they're victims of a natural disaster (their suffering is "heartbreaking"), rather than victims of ongoing US-backed atrocities.
She does so while promising unrelenting military backing for the government killing them.
Shame. #DNC2024
New study shows air quality in the subway is a HAZARD and the longer you have to wait the worse it is for you
We had a plan to start to fix these problems with congestion pricing. But the gov thinks saving a few people $15 is more important than the health of millions
Fuck. Fuck AIPAC. We are losing champions. Rep. Cori Bush has been so generous with her abortion stories and sharing them to shape policy, and a wonderful voice for Black and Brown people. Fuck AIPAC.
BREAKING: 400 American Jews mark Netanyahu's arrival by refusing to leave Congress until our government listens to the will of the people and STOPS ARMING ISRAEL!
"I support Roe v Wade, which had three trimesters. The first time, is between a woman and a doctor. Second time is between a doctor and an extreme situation. A third time is between the doctor, I mean, between the women and the state."
Stunning. The Democrats' best issue.